If you look at the last 10 years, the staffing overall in the immigration department has gone down quite a lot. Even in the early nineties, when there were some cuts--federal departments all had to face cuts and there was a cut in the overall public service--Immigration was one of the departments that lost staff, and we're still losing staff. Now we have a budget freeze and we're losing staff again.
On April 13th, 2010. See this statement in context.